Spring tensioned holding device



Filed March 30, 1950 ,K T e m 0 Vi 7 m2 r Patented Sept. 25, 1951 OFFICE 2,569,021 7 SPRING TENSIONED Hermie sewer Leo Rozanski, St. Louis, Mo.

Application March 30, 1950, Serial No. 152,926

2 Claims.

This invention relates to holding devices for detachably supporting various types of articles, and, more particularly to a clip type holding device.

An important object of the invention is to provide a holding device including a clamp having non-resilient gripping arms which are spring tensioned.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holding device including one, or more pairs of clamps carried by a casing for positive gripping engagement with articles held thereby.

A further object of the invention is to provide a clip, or clamp for a holding device which is adjustable to define an article receiving space and automatic in its gripping action against the article to be held thereby.

A further object of the invention is to provide a holding device which maybe quickly assembled and disassembled.

Other objects and advantages of the invention will be apparent during the course of the following description.

In the accompanying drawings forming a part of this application, and in which like characters of reference are employed to designate like parts throughout the same:

Fig. 1 is a top plan View of the device, an article shown in dotted lines as held thereby.

Fig. 2 is a front elevation of Fig. 1.

Fig. 3 is a front elevation of the casing, per se.

Fig. 4 is a view taken on line 4-4 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a rear elevation of the right hand end portion of Fig. 1.

Fig. 6 is a detail of one of the gripping arms.

Fig. 7 is a detail of the spring to apply tension to a pair of gripping arms.

In the drawings, wherein for the purpose of illustration, i shown a preferred embodiment of my invention, the numeral 10 designates, generally, a casing. The casing includes a front wall ll having a plurality of spaced pairs of slotted openings I 2. Each pair of spaced openings l2 are suitably spaced apart and arranged in parallel relation. The edges of the front plate II terminate in rearwardly directed top, bottom and end flanges, designated [3, M and 15, respectively, and the rear edges of the end flanges l5 terminate in right angular ears l6 having openings l1 to receive suitable fastening devices to secure the casing to a wall.

Associated with the casing ID, are a plurality of pairs of article engaging, non-resilient gripping arms I8. One of said arms is clearly shown in Fig. 6 and has its forward end portion curled outwardly, as at H], to form a loop shaped forward end. The rear end portion of the arm is reduced in width to provide a pair of shoulders 29 and a tongue 2i. The tongue 2| is bent, as at 22, to provide an angularly arranged wing 23 forming the rear end portion of the tongue. The forward end of the tongue adjacent the shoulders is preferably of 'a length slightly greater than the thickness of the front plate ll of the casing Ill.

The wing portion 23 of each gripping arm I8 is provided with a suitable slotted opening 24 to receive a correspondingly shaped finger 25 at each end of a flat arcuately shaped spring 26. The fingers '25 at each end of the spring 26 are of less width than the remaining portion of the spring to provide opposed shoulders 21 to engage the inner faces of the rear wing portions 23 of the gripping arms l8 when the fingers 25 of the spring 26 are passed through the openings 24 for positioning the spring 26 between the rear ends of the gripping arms I 8 and cause each pair of gripping arms to be spring tensioned. The spring 26 connecting the rear ends of each pair of gripping arms is designed to urge the rear ends of the arms away from each other and to urge the forward ends of the gripping arms toward each other, and to afford sufiicient spring tension to positively grip any article held therebetween such, for instance, as a comb, tooth-brush, or any other article capable of being held between the gripping arms.

From the foregoing description, it will be clearly apparent that an article may be easily positioned between each pair of gripping arms l8 and will be positively held therebetween until removed, due to the action of the spring 26.

It is to be understood that the form of my invention, herewith shown and described, is to be taken as a preferred example of the same, and that various changes in the'shape, size and arrangement of parts may be resorted to, without departing from the spirit of my invention, or the scope of the subjoined claims.

What I claim is:

1. A device of the class described comprising a casing having a pair of spaced parallel arranged slots in the front wall thereof, a pair of opposed non-resilient shouldered clip members each having a front end and with the rear end thereof projecting rearwardly through the slotted openings, the rear ends of the clip members having slotted openings therein, and a fiat arcuately shaped resilient member having reduced ends received in the slotted openings in the clip members to urge the rear ends of the clip members away from each other and urge the front ends of the clip members toward each other to grip an object supported therebetween.

2. In a holding device of the class described, a casing adapted to be secured to a wall, the front wall or the casing having a plurality of spaced pairs of slotted openings therein, a clamp for each pair of slotted opening having a pair of non-resilient gripping arms, said arms havin rear end portions thereof passing rearwardly through the slotted openings, and springs connecting the rear end portions of the gripping arms to urge the arms to closed position.

LEO R/OZANSKI.

. 4 REFERENCE CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

UNITED STATES PATENTS Number Name Date 717,888 Miller Jan. 6, 1903 850,903 Bulkley 1.. Apr. 23, 1907 1,010,057 Kaeber Nov. 28, 1911 1,149,444 Hodgson Aug. 10, 1915 1,347,135 Valkenburg July 20, 1920 1,557,989 Dombrowsky Oct. 20, 1925 1,743,693 Smith Jan. 14, 1930 2,157,806 Tilton May 9, 1939 

